jazzbo

Got mine last night and passed along my advance copies to a friend. Man these are great. Now I want A DRUM IS A WOMAN to become a cd!

Many more happy ones Mr. H!

Unless it was a radio broadcast item that I haven't encountered (a possibility for sure) I'd say it's the Roche version.

No haven't heard Strummer's. I heard the Cash as just Johnny and his guitar, very moving (it's a song that moves me.) May not be in the box set in question, but it was a really nice listen.

I have heard Cash singing "Redemption Songs" (the Marley composition which I LOVE) and I think that is on this collection. If it is, it's a strong reason to check it out!

John, Someone had to do it!

That is an interesting point, the chatter is absent on the box. It is present on the Japanese cds. . . .

Duke Ellington, Bobby Hutcherson and Shirley Scott

Jack Teagarden, Eddie Lang, Slam Stewart

I like Rickie Lee Jones' version. . .

I actually LIKE jazz vocalists. I'm just not a Hartman fan in a big way at all. If it had been Jimmy Scott, that would have been something! Something very different, I'm sure. . . .

I know this goes against the party line. .. but. . . I just have to say it. . . I'm not crazy about this one. I'd be happier if they had just done another "Ballads" instrumental session! Over the years Johnny Hartman just does less and less for me. Okay, thanks for letting me vent that one!

Well, I've become less and less a fan of "special packaging". . . . I'd have everything in Maxislim cases if I could (and believe me I've converted hundreds of releases TO Maxislim recordings in the last year!)

Man, this looks good. . . but. . . I wish I could get a less deluxe version without cotton and cedar. . . . Specially the cedar the way my allergies have been the last few years!

HE DEFINITELY listened to those two, and I think they did influence his sound and thinking. Still, the reason we love Pres is probably most because of . . . Pres. That whole family was so musical! It would be really something if we could hear the music the others besides the bros Les and Lee made!

MANY MORE HAPPY ONES!

The US Prestige "Chronicles" box was from the early days of cd remastering, long before JVC came up with a K2 system.

You mean this is NOT A ROCK ALBUM? Hey, it's an OLD wall, because jazz is dead, see?

I can't find any evidence that this has come out on cd. I did find a mention of this being "GRP/Impulse" on this page: http://www.georgerussell.com/d.html Which would be appropriate if it had come out between twelve and four years ago maybe. . . but it didn't. PUZZLING.

There HAS been a two cd "Best of the box set" issued!

How about Ellington Indigos redone by Mariah Scheider?

Randy Weston, Karsh Kale and Pete Cosey.

Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus and Helen Merrill.

Hey, didn't Prime Time do an update of the Coleman material, called "Booty Call"?

Sound quality is very good on that Soundies disc of Ducal transcriptions. I'm willing to bet that it will show up again on cd before too long. All but one or two of these used to be on a Jass or another of the Stash labels cd before this release, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see it show up on Storyville or Circle after this release is gone. . . Blanton-Webster band stuff will surface!